CHICAGO - Driving in Dangerous Austin Neighborhood 

Austin was a neighborhood with highest number of homicides in Chicago in 2021. Fortunately, the situation seems to look a bit better in 2022.

Austin is the second most populated neighborhood in Chicago, Rogers Park being number one. Beautiful buildings.

What beauty, the mature trees changing colors in autumn, sidewalks, nice houses, no ugly parking lots like in the suburbs. It sucks that this neighborhood is now plagued with crime.

Yeah this is a nice hood honestly I can say about Chicago the area may be dangerous but it looks pretty good compared to other cities when you know it’s a rough area. Good content!

Thank you for the beautiful video. Love Austin 🙂

It's definitely a different experience being here at night with people outside. I get in, I get out, and mind my business during my stay. It's mostly cool though as long as you aren't starting trouble and mean mugging people for no reason. Small tip for people not used to being in these areas: don't get too curious. Staring at people is one of the easiest routes to conflict. Pay attention for certain, just not to the point where you stand out too tough.

Nice trip! Still warm and sunny!

Say what you will but it is a beautiful side of the city, despite the ongoing problems. You can tell most of the residents here are not like those so often seen in the limelight of the news--homes are well maintained with nice gardens and lawns. People out working instead of the open air drug markets of Garfield Park and all over west coast cities. This area obviously has its share of unnecessary violence and out of control gangs but maybe it wouldn't be such a problem if the city invested in these areas instead of building risky migrant tent sites on the south side.

I’m from the Austin community, central and west end… looks pleasant because it borders the suburbs but people get murdered often here, don’t be fooled

Until pretty recently, Austin was largest community in Chicago, its population has dropped and no longer biggest in population. The NW corner of Austin near Elmwood Pk (Galewood) has some beautiful homes, as does boulevards just east of Austin Blvd with parkways in middle of streets. At 7:14 or so to right can see former St Anne’s Hospital, once a booming hospital, and at 25:10 the former St Thomas Aquinas Church (now St Martin de Porres). Austin was beautiful in its heyday.

🚗😍thank you !!

I loved my old neighborhood.

The only liveable place on the westside would be the island. To dangerous anywhere else..

For most of the parts it really does look very nice.

Bro drove past my home lol

Austin is dangerous, Lawndale, Woodlawn, Auburn Gresham, Kenwood ,Bronzeville. I'm from Chicago...

I live here it looks nice but it’s fucked up through here

Beautiful

4 uber driver got robbed in month in this area daytiime looks all good but the min night hit it turns to hell

How many people in the world committed suicide

We from out west

My old neighbor hood!

I was sooooo SCARED watching the VIDEO

These people that make these videos piss me off. If going through a big intersection or sitting at a red light, could you show us some street signs so we know where your at. Da!

This doesnt look like a dangerous slum at all. Are you sure this the area you mean?

austin IL is not dangerous 💀

Every were in chicago is dangerous born raised west side Augusta keystone